Improvement in door-checks



l. BADER.

Door-Checks.

N0. 144,246. PatentedNov.4,1873^.'

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB BADER, OF OLATHE, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOR'CHECKS.

Specification `forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,246, datedNovember 4, 1873; application filed September 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I7 J noon BADER, ot Olathe, in the county of Johnson andState of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Gate and Door Stop, ofwhich the following is a speciiication:

My invention consists or" a pair of legs jointed together and to a slideon the door or gate, so as tobe shoved down onto the licor or ground,and at the same time extended from each other in both directions inwhich the gate or door swings, so that by bearing on the floor orentering the ground they will hold the door or gate :from swinging ineither direction. In the case of a door the legs and slide will, bypreference, be arranged in a recess in the edge eX tending upward asuitable distance from the lower corner, so as to be worked up and downby hand, and will have a set-screw to fasten it, but in a gate the legs,being similarly arranged in a recess on the end post of the gate-frame,may be worked by a lever, with which buttons are arranged to hold it inthe positions forlieeping the legs in the ground or out ofit.

Figure l is partly a side elevation and partly a sectional elevation ofa portion of a door and the door-frame, showing the application of myimproved stop thereto, the section being taken on the line x of Fig. 2.Fig. 2 is an elevation of the edge of the door, as represented in Fig.l. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of a gate, showing myimproved stop appliedl to it 5 and Fig. 4 is an end elevation of thegate.

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Arepresents the legs, and B the slide to whih they are pivoted. Crepresents a spreader between the legs at the bottom of the door orgate, to spread the legs apart as they are forced down into the groundor upon the floor to cause tnein to brace mthe door or gate. The slide Band legs A are arranged in a recess, D, in the edge of the door or endof the gate, so that the walls E of said recess will hide them when thelegs are drawn up. The slide of the door has a slot, F, through which aset screw, G, works, to hold it in place when sliding up and down, andto fasten it when either up or down. It also has a thi1nblepicce,f, forWorking it by. The slide of the gate is connected to a lever, l, whichis to be used for forcing the legs into the ground and putting them out5 and the buttons K L are `provided on the gate for holding the lever upand down, as required.

It will be seen that with these contrivances in either arrangement adoor or gate can be readily and effectually fastened open at anyrequired distance.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-v l. rllhe movable stop-legs AA and spreader C,combined and arranged in a cavity of gate or door, as and for thepurpose described.

2. The slideB, having the legs AApivotedLfto the lower andthe lever Ipivoted to the up ei end, as described, to enable the said legs t beforced into the ground. ,f

JACOB BADER.

Witnesses J. M. SNoDenAss, THEO. McBnroE.

